The winter wheat crop in parts of the Plains is falling in quality while farmers are seeing delays in the mid-South as corn-planting fights to move north into the Midwest, where another set of weather challenges and potential delays could ...
Tags: National Agricultural Statistics Service, Warm temperatures, Agriculture
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis inched up as the import-related loss has turned into a profit, while the import interest has generally stayed thin after the New Year ...
Tags: Copper Import, Copper
Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) copper prices climbed on Wednesday, the last trading day of 2014. The market closed on January 1 and 2 due to the New Year holidays. The most-traded copper contract for March delivery on the SHFE ended at ...
Tags: Copper Prices, Copper
U.S. chain-store sales rose 2.2 percent year on year for the week that ended on December 27 and included the final shopping days before Christmas, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs. ...
According to CEPEA/ESALQ, most companies continue to refrain from closing new cotton trades due to the nearness of Christmas vacation. Only a few players are operating in this end-of-the-year period in the Brazilian cotton market, it ...
Tags: Christmas vacation, cotton market, Textile
The quotations for the CIF Bremen Cotton Index fluctuated within a small range in the current week, compared to the previous week. The corresponding prices in Euro experienced only a marginal change as well, while the US dollar remained ...
Price of produce in 36 large and medium-sized Chinese cities moved up slightly in the week ending Nov. 30 compared with the previous week, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. The average price of 18 vegetables experienced a rise of ...
The volatile movements in New York cotton futures discouraged spinning yarn producers from entering in to long term contracts. “Aside from a few deals in extra-long staple varieties, mills continued to adopt the wait-and-watch ...
Tags: spinning yarn, Cotton Futures, Textile
“The CIF Bremen Index mildly followed the marginally downward movements in New York cotton futures in the current week,” a report from the Bremen Cotton Exchange, informs. It adds that mainly technical reasons were likely ...
Now that the end is in sight for most farmers -- and fortunately so on account of the Arctic blast of freezing temperatures and snow that have moved into the nation's center this week -- corn and soybean harvest have both caught up to the ...
Tags: Corn Harvest, Agriculture
About 2/3 of the nation's corn crop is out of the field, while farmers have caught up with the average pace with soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. Eighty-three percent of the nation's soybean crop has ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean Harvest
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis generally remained steady but displayed signs of slipping amid persistent weakness in the physical buying interest, market sources said ...
Recent weakness in Brazilian ex-mill hydrous fuel ethanol prices finally led to more competitive retail prices in the key southeastern part of the country in the week ended October 25, National Petroleum Agency data showed Monday. ...
In the week from October 20 to October 26, on the Orbis Steel Index the Turkish scrap index started to move upwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index continued to move sideways. In the given week, the Turkish rebar ...
Tags: Turkish Scrap, Steel, Energy
Weakening demand from cotton spinning mills in early October, led to cotton prices, resuming moving down in the Brazilian market. Spinners are offering lower prices than those quoted by sellers, for even high-quality cotton, while also ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Cotton Demand